Bit By The Spring Clean Bug!

For months (or what seems like months) I’ve had random piles of fabric on my home sewing room cutting table.

It’s just another flat surface where anything dealing with sewing room stuff tends to land.

In this case, it was Fat Quarters and larger scrap pieces intended for filing in my fat quarter bins at home.

Yes – my fat quarter storage is at home because I need SOMETHING to pull from at home when not sewing at the QPO, and there is no room for this rack at the QPO.

I can however, grab what color box of FQs I need and transport them back and forth. That part is easy.

Until it comes to putting returned FQs back in their bins.

I’ve been calling my mom to check in on her, but she is kind of old school. If she hears me doing anything as I call her hands-free, she says “Do you want to call me back when you’re not busy?”

She is the one who taught me to never be idle!

So I have to do quiet things. No washing dishes or dinner prep with kitchen noise.

But I can fold Fat Quarters! (Much more appealing than folding laundry!)

It has, however, been two days since that phone call and the FQs are still folded and color sorted and still sitting on my cutting table.

I’ll put them in their perspective color bins with the next phone call.

AND. I seem to have brought the Spring Cleaning Bug to the QPO yesterday. Not a machine stitch was sewn.

Since I had gone through those pre-cut rectangles the day before, that opened the door to organizing the rest of the precut squares.

This time I placed each stack by size in zip-lock bags to keep the edges from getting thready and keeping the squares from migrating from one size to another.

Then there was a basket – I went through that too. And another bin. I went through that too.

I made four big scrap bags and placed them in the “Free Basket” in the dining room at Quiltville Inn where I hope they will be adopted and used by incoming quilters!

(That felt good!)

Realizing I had 45 minutes left on the clock before needing to leave for a chiropractor appointment, I dug into the neutrals string bin to cut myself some more squares to increase the variety in my hexie making tin.

This handful should last me a while!
I guess SOME sewing, albeit hand sewing, did happen last night.
I didn’t finish the hexie border – I’m about 3 hexies too short, but that won’t take long and I’ll be on to figuring out what to do for the top and bottom borders.

Today – I will be back to these!
At least for a small amount of time.
We are leaving for the airport at 2pm, son Jason is headed home!
We will miss him greatly but we know he has his own life to get home to. We’ve had a wonderful 2 weeks together. I’m so glad he was able to come and be with us through the holidays.

Our 2026 retreat season kicks off 2/11/26 with our February Quiltvillians Retreat over Valentine’s weekend.

We currently have four openings and would love to have you and a friend join us!

Check in is 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday 2/11/26 with check out Tuesday a.m. 2/17/26.

Our Quiltville Open Studio retreat coordinator is Rebecca Beeman Shumaker and she would love to hear from you with any inquiries and for all the information.

You can contact her through Facebook Messenger or email her at quiltvillians@gmail.com

I am so excited to be kicking off our 7th Retreat season in just over a month!